Spesh or Further?

[khalil]

Do spesh, I was in the same boat as you, I did GM  which led to specialist but I picked further. Further is soooo boring. Its easy, but if your're not interested, you won't do the work. Spesh is MUCH BETTER!

[mystikal]

Are you doing physics by any chance next year? Because it does help with 10-15% of the spesh part of vectors/mechanics/kinematics
especially if you  are doing structures and materials as a detailed study.. Also methods inconjunction with spesh is pretty good because there are alot of stuff that overlaps diff,trig,intergration ...etc. however the workload for both of them combined is quite big so that might be an issue. Also further is a walk in a park if you are good at maths you probably wouldnt have to study as much, but u do have get used to a ti 84 if you are not using it already. You probably benefit from the matrices work covered in further for methods but thats about it, the rest is arithmatic/patterns/geometry . Umm also what course you interested in, spesh gives middle band bonus points for some courses where further doesnt so yea that could also be a factor. but yea its really up to you balance cons and pros and see your careers teacher/maths teacher.

[jimmy999]

Some people choose Further over Spesh just because they think they'll get a higher score in further.
Yet if you're good at maths and enjoy it, then spesh is the better choice as it will be easier to get a higher scaled score, obviously if you're good at it.

Also spesh has a big workload, but most of the course is all linked to each other. Whilst most things you do in Further is all confined to itself therefore you could learn 10 new things and none of them will relate to each other

[darkphoenix]

Yeah i am considering an engineering course, so spesh will help.

I do enjoy maths, well it is one of my stronger areas i suppose.

No im not doing physics.

Yeah i've heard people saying further is easy, but boring, so you can easily stuff it up and hence result in a scaled down study score.

[minilunchbox]

If you're considering engineering, you should definitely do specialist.

[fender.tele]

I'm only in year 11 but I reckon you should do spesh, if maths is one of your stronger areas. Stupid mistakes count for much less.

[darkphoenix]

Ok cool thanks for all the advice guys, i think it is most likely that i will carry on with spesh